Knit shows your church who needs help, and helps your people give it.

Your people can help each other without every need coming through your staff. There’s no chat for your Team to moderate. Your Team approves join requests and reviews posts held by a safety check or your church’s settings. A member’s Money & bills need always waits for review. You can also review first posts from people who join after you turn on new-member review, or every post on a board. We set it up with you; your Team can see every response and step in when needed.

In a group chat or Facebook group, a need sits between birthday wishes and sermon links, and only that group sees it. Every post in Knit is a need, an offer, a prayer request or a story, and your whole church sees it. A helper sends one note, then the conversation moves into real life. Your church app can keep carrying sermons and announcements; Knit helps the people who need each other find each other, with your Team able to see every post and response.

People have a reason to open it: someone needs a ride, asks for prayer or has something to give. There’s nothing to download; Knit opens in any phone’s browser. Alerts bring them back to what matters, with as much detail as your church chooses. An optional weekly email shows what’s new. There are no streaks, badges or algorithm. The aim is a meal dropped off or a prayer prayed back, then the phone put away.

People can sign in with Planning Center, Google or Apple, or a code sent by text or email. There’s no new password to remember, and your Team still decides who gets in. Knit doesn’t sync with Planning Center yet; after the pilot, it plans to send back membership facts and counts only.

You decide who gets in, and your Team has a way to act when trust is broken. Members can report a post, response or profile. Safety checks can hold posts and introduction notes with suspected scams, solicitation or unsafe payment instructions for review. Your Team can hold every post from one person, can see every response and can reveal an anonymous name when care or safety calls for it. No money moves through Knit, and your safeguarding policies still apply.

Think of Knit as your church lobby. You decide who comes in, but when two people meet there and agree to help each other, the arrangement is theirs. Knit’s Terms, which every member accepts before joining, say the same thing. Neither Knit nor your church is a party to what members arrange between themselves. If your Team agrees to pass a gift along for someone, that handoff is your church’s, and it happens outside the app. No money moves through Knit, and your own safeguarding policies still apply.

Keep rallying as a group first. Knit is for the needs that go beyond what one group can carry, or where no one in the group is the right fit. It also gives every group a way to serve the wider church.

Start with your leaders. Ask each person who joins in launch week to share one small Need, prayer request or Offer; an Offer is an easy first step. A home group can pick a few Needs and make a service night of it. Then invite the wider church the way you already share news. We set it up with you. The Stories give the next person the courage to ask, because they can see their people showing up for each other.

Knit can’t promise every Need will be met. Your Team can see the Need and its responses, so they can check in, help the person find someone or meet it themselves. They check for unanswered Needs manually; Knit doesn’t yet send an alert when one goes unanswered. You keep pastoral oversight without coordinating every introduction.

Your church has its own private space. Joining one church gives no access to another’s member posts, responses or profiles; there’s no public board or member directory. People can ask without their name, and other members never see an exact address. Your Team can see every response and reveal an anonymous name when care or safety calls for it. Knit uses personal data to run Knit, support your church, protect members, send requested alerts and comply with the law. It doesn’t sell it, use it for advertising or train unrelated AI on it.

A member’s Money & bills need always waits for your Team’s review, then goes up for your church like any other need. No money changes hands on Knit. Giving happens outside the app, in person or through your church’s benevolence process. Add a short message and link to that process, and Knit shows it when someone picks Money & bills.

It’s free while we pilot together, and you can leave anytime. Paid plans come later, and we’ll share the price before you decide whether to continue.

Every church has needs it never hears about. Many are ordinary: a prayer on a hard Tuesday, six hands on moving day, finding the family you met in the lobby. Knit gives those needs a place to be heard, and the people willing to help a way to answer. It’s also for the member who would rather write a prayer than pray out loud. Start with a group you trust and let the stories show your church what is possible.

No. Knit isn’t an emergency service, and a post doesn’t promise an immediate response. When someone’s words sound like a crisis, Knit shows help first: your church’s own crisis help, or 988 and 911 if your church hasn’t written any.

No. People can open Knit in their phone’s web browser. On an iPhone they can add it to the Home Screen from Safari, and Android phones offer to install it, so it opens like an app without a store download.

Needs come down after 30 days and Offers after 60; your church can choose its own windows. The person who posted gets a reminder near the end and can extend it once. Your people see what is still needed, rather than an archive they have to sort through.